There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.